System Collapse

Critical Mass

The Extinction Trials

The Kaiju Preservation Society

Lost in Time

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

, it’s a funny story full of twists and suspense. I really like his style, and while this book is quite different than The Martian, I enjoyed it a lot.

Project Hail Mary

Home

Fugitive Telemetry

Axiom's End

Network Effect

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Ready Player Two

The Last Emperox Is The Thrilling Conclusion To The Award-winning, New York Times And Usa Today Bestselling Interdependency Series, An Epic Space Opera Adventure From Hugo Award-winning Author John Scalzi. The Collapse Of The Flow, The Interstellar Pathway Between The Planets Of The Interdependency, Has Accelerated. Entire Star Systems—and Billions Of People—are Becoming Cut Off From The Rest Of Human Civilization. This Collapse Was Foretold Through Scientific Prediction . . . And Yet, Even As The Evidence Is Obvious And Insurmountable, Many Still Try To Rationalize, Delay And Profit From, These Final Days Of One Of The Greatest Empires Humanity Has Ever Known. Emperox Grayland Ii Has Finally Wrested Control Of Her Empire From Those Who Oppose Her And Who Deny The Reality Of This Collapse. But “control” Is A Slippery Thing, And Even As Grayland Strives To Save As Many Of Her People Form Impoverished Isolation, The Forces Opposing Her Rule Will Make A Final, Desperate Push To Topple Her From Her Throne And Power, By Any Means Necessary. Grayland And Her Thinning List Of Allies Must Use Every Tool At Their Disposal To Save Themselves, And All Of Humanity. And Yet It May Not Be Enough. Will Grayland Become The Savior Of Her Civilization . . . Or The Last Emperox To Wear The Crown? The Interdependency Series 1. The Collapsing Empire 2. The Consuming Fire 3. The Last Emperox At The Publisher's Request, This Title Is Being Sold Without Digital Rights Management Software (drm) Applied.

The Last Emperox

The Silo Series Collection

Finished it in practically one go. Thoroughly enjoyed this story as it builds upon "

". The whole idea an details surrounding the AI with its branches doing things on their own, things that nobody understands, rings true in not so distant future.

Agency

The Solar War

The Lost Colony

Winter World

Exit Strategy

Rogue Protocol

The Consuming Fire

I like these short, abrasive books (in a good way, mind you!)

I also think this series is not about the adventures of a "construct", but rather about us humans, and how weird and strange and terrible and fantastic we could be.

Positively, going to read the rest of the series!

Artificial Condition

As brilliant and thrilling as ever! Such a ride, and so well-written.

Change Agent

The Collapsing Empire

Winner: 2018 Hugo Award For Best Novella Winner: 2018 Nebula Award For Best Novella Winner: 2018 Alex Award Winner: 2018 Locus Award One Of The Verge's Best Books Of 2017 A New York Times And Usa Today Bestseller A Murderous Android Discovers Itself In All Systems Red, A Tense Science Fiction Adventure By Martha Wells That Interrogates The Roots Of Consciousness Through Artificial Intelligence. As A Heartless Killing Machine, I Was A Complete Failure. In A Corporate-dominated Spacefaring Future, Planetary Missions Must Be Approved And Supplied By The Company. Exploratory Teams Are Accompanied By Company-supplied Security Androids, For Their Own Safety. But In A Society Where Contracts Are Awarded To The Lowest Bidder, Safety Isn’t A Primary Concern. On A Distant Planet, A Team Of Scientists Are Conducting Surface Tests, Shadowed By Their Company-supplied ‘droid — A Self-aware Secunit That Has Hacked Its Own Governor Module, And Refers To Itself (though Never Out Loud) As “murderbot.” Scornful Of Humans, All It Really Wants Is To Be Left Alone Long Enough To Figure Out Who It Is. But When A Neighboring Mission Goes Dark, It's Up To The Scientists And Their Murderbot To Get To The Truth. At The Publisher's Request, This Title Is Being Sold Without Digital Rights Management Software (drm) Applied.

Really cool premise, and a somewhat unexpected plot twist at the end. Enjoyed it a lot.

All Systems Red

Pandemic

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller—a heist story set on the moon. Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.   Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she’s owed for a long time.   So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can’t say no. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosions—not to mention sheer brazen swagger. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can’t handle, and she figures she’s got the ‘swagger’ part down.   The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazz’s problems. Because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself.   Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, even Jazz has to admit she’s in way over her head. She’ll have to hatch a truly spectacular scheme to have a chance at staying alive and saving her city.   Jazz is no hero, but she is a very good criminal.   That’ll have to do.   Propelled by its heroine’s wisecracking voice, set in a city that’s at once stunningly imagined and intimately familiar, and brimming over with clever problem-solving and heist-y fun, Artemis is another irresistible brew of science, suspense, and humor from #1 bestselling author Andy Weir.

Artemis

Genome

The Da Vinci Code

From the author of the #1 bestselling The Atlantis Gene comes a new novel in which the world’s past and future rests in the hands of five unwitting strangers in this definitive edition of A. G. Riddle's time-traveling, mind-bending speculative thriller. En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they’ve crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back home? Five passengers seem to hold clues about what’s really going on: writer Harper Lane, venture capitalist Nick Stone, German genetic researcher Sabrina Schröder, computer scientist Yul Tan, and Grayson Shaw, the son of a billionaire philanthropist. As more facts about the crash emerge, it becomes clear that some in this group know more than they’re letting on—answers that will lead Harper and Nick to uncover a far-reaching conspiracy involving their own lives. As they begin to piece together the truth, they discover they have the power to change the future and the past—to save our world . . . or end it. A wildly inventive and propulsive adventure full of hairpin twists, Departure is a thrilling tale that weaves together power, ambition, fate, memory, and love, from a bold and visionary talent.  

Departure

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

Seveneves

A Single Raindrop Opens A Pandora's Box When The Spawn Of Perverse Genetic Research Performed During World War Ii Is Unleashed On An Unsuspecting Modern World. By Dawn, Only A Dead City Remains, Eerily Quiet And Still, Except For Mutant Beasts That Hide From The Light, Multiply, And Await The Shadows Of Night To Continue Their Relentless Advance. Ordered To Investigate The Unfolding Crisis, Biowarfare Specialist Carolyn Ridnour Barely Escapes The Creatures' Nocturnal Onslaught, Saved In The Nick Of Time By Colonel Garrett Hoffman, Who Lost Hundreds Of His Troops To A Swarm That Neither Bombs Nor Bullets Can Stop. As Carolyn And Garrett Race To Stop The Plague, A Battered And Broken Government Prepares To Release The Fury Of America's Nuclear Arsenal On Its Own Soil And Its Own Citizens. -- Back Cover.

The Gemini Effect

The Peripheral

The Martian

Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.


Lock In

The Atlantis World

Influx

The Atlantis Gene

Visitors

Year Zero

Inferno

Fahrenheit 451

The Atlantis Plague

Redshirts

Ruins

Kill Decision

Immersing Himself In A Mid-21st-century Technological Virtual Utopia To Escape An Ugly Real World Of Famine, Poverty And Disease, Wade Watts Joins An Increasingly Violent Effort To Solve A Series Of Puzzles By The Virtual World's Super-wealthy Creator, Who Has Promised That The Winner Will Be His Heir. (this Book Was Previously Listed In Forecast.)

Ready Player One

Freedom™

Daniel Suarez’s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “so frightening even the government has taken note” (Entertainment Weekly). Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every service. They make our networked world possible. But they also make it vulnerable...   When the obituary of legendary computer game architect Matthew Sobol appears online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that begins to unravel our interconnected world. This daemon reads news headlines, recruits human followers, and orders assassinations. With Sobol’s secrets buried with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed, it’s up to Detective Peter Sebeck to stop a self-replicating virtual killer before it achieves its ultimate purpose—one that goes far beyond anything Sebeck could have imagined...

Daemon

<p><P>Space vampires and a whole lot more, when Peter Watts moves into the future in space. Canadian writer Watts is on the cutting edge of hard SF, especially in characterization. His satirical resurrecting-the-vampire film ought to help promote this dark, pow</p><h3>The Washington Post - Gwenda Bond</h3><p>Trained as a marine biologist, Watts is completely at ease using his richly developed characters to spin possibilities and theories on the cutting edge of science. His dense idea storms may slow some readers, but most will sail through the tech-heavy patches purely for the thrill of seeing what happens next.</p>

BLINDSIGHT

Case, A Nerve-damaged Data Thief, Is Recruited By A New Employer For A Last-chance Run Against A Powerful Artificial Intelligence. William Gibson ; With An Afterword By Jack Womack.

Rather strange one. I’m not 100% positive I understand 

Neuromancer

Angels & Demons

Digital Fortress

Forward the Foundation

One of Time’s 100 best English-language novels • A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you’ll recognize it immediately Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison—a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Praise for Snow Crash “[Snow Crash is] a cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian “Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century.”—William Gibson “Brilliantly realized . . . Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow.”—The New York Times Book Review

Snow Crash

The War For Survival Of The Planet Lusitania Will Be Fought In The Heart Of A Child Named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender Found A World Where Humans And Pequininos And The Hive Queen Could All Live Together; Where Three Very Different Intelligent Species Could Find Common Ground At Last. Or So He Thought. Lusitania Also Harbors The Descolada, A Virus That Kills All Humans It Infects, But Which The Pequininos Require In Order To Become Adults. The Starways Congress So Fears The Effects Of The Descolada, Should It Escape From Lusitania, That They Have Ordered The Destruction Of The Entire Planet, And All Who Live There. The Fleet Is On Its Way, A Second Xenocide Seems Inevitable. Xenocide Is The Third Novel In Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet. The Ender Universe Ender Series Ender’s Game / Ender In Exile / Speaker For The Dead / Xenocide / Children Of The Mind Ender’s Shadow Series Ender’s Shadow / Shadow Of The Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow Of The Giant / Shadows In Flight Children Of The Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm /the Hive Ender Novellas A War Of Gifts /first Meetings At The Publisher's Request, This Title Is Being Sold Without Digital Rights Management Software (drm) Applied.

Xenocide

Foundation's Edge

Prelude To Foundation

In The Aftermath Of His Terrible War, Ender Wiggin Disappeared, And A Powerful Voice Arose: The Speaker For The Dead, Who Told The True Story Of The Bugger War. Now, Long Years Later, A Second Alien Race Has Been Discovered, But Again The Aliens' Ways Are Strange And Frightening...again, Humans Die. And It Is Only The Speaker For The Dead, Who Is Also Ender Wiggin The Xenocide, Who Has The Courage To Confront The Mystery...and The Truth. Speaker For The Dead, The Second Novel In Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, Is The Winner Of The 1986 Nebula Award For Best Novel And The 1987 Hugo Award For Best Novel. The Ender Universe Ender Series Ender’s Game / Ender In Exile / Speaker For The Dead / Xenocide / Children Of The Mind Ender’s Shadow Series Ender’s Shadow / Shadow Of The Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow Of The Giant / Shadows In Flight Children Of The Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm /the Hive Ender Novellas A War Of Gifts /first Meetings At The Publisher's Request, This Title Is Being Sold Without Digital Rights Management Software (drm) Applied.

Speaker for the Dead

Foundation and Earth

Winner Of The Hugo And Nebula Awards In Order To Develop A Secure Defense Against A Hostile Alien Race's Next Attack, Government Agencies Breed Child Geniuses And Train Them As Soldiers. A Brilliant Young Boy, Andrew Ender Wiggin Lives With His Kind But Distant Parents, His Sadistic Brother Peter, And The Person He Loves More Than Anyone Else, His Sister Valentine. Peter And Valentine Were Candidates For The Soldier-training Program But Didn't Make The Cut—young Ender Is The Wiggin Drafted To The Orbiting Battle School For Rigorous Military Training. Ender's Skills Make Him A Leader In School And Respected In The Battle Room, Where Children Play At Mock Battles In Zero Gravity. Yet Growing Up In An Artificial Community Of Young Soldiers Ender Suffers Greatly From Isolation, Rivalry From His Peers, Pressure From The Adult Teachers, And An Unsettling Fear Of The Alien Invaders. His Psychological Battles Include Loneliness, Fear That He Is Becoming Like The Cruel Brother He Remembers, And Fanning The Flames Of Devotion To His Beloved Sister. Is Ender The General Earth Needs? But Ender Is Not The Only Result Of The Genetic Experiments. The War With The Buggers Has Been Raging For A Hundred Years, And The Quest For The Perfect General Has Been Underway For Almost As Long. Ender's Two Older Siblings Are Every Bit As Unusual As He Is, But In Very Different Ways. Between The Three Of Them Lie The Abilities To Remake A World. If, That Is, The World Survives. Ender's Game Is The Winner Of The 1985 Nebula Award For Best Novel And The 1986 Hugo Award For Best Novel. The Ender Universe Ender Series Ender’s Game / Ender In Exile / Speaker For The Dead / Xenocide / Children Of The Mind Ender’s Shadow Series Ender’s Shadow / Shadow Of The Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow Of The Giant / Shadows In Flight Children Of The Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm /the Hive Ender Novellas A War Of Gifts /first Meetings At The Publisher's Request, This Title Is Being Sold Without Digital Rights Management Software (drm) Applied.

Ender's Game

The Ringworld Engineers

As the acclaimed Patternist science fiction series begins, two immortals meet in the long-ago past—and mankind’s destiny is changed forever. For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing the bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him. But when a gang of New World slavers destroys his village, ruining his grand experiment, Doro is forced to go west and begin anew.   He meets Anyanwu, a centuries-old woman whose means of immortality are as kind as his are cruel. She is a shapeshifter, capable of healing with a kiss, and she recognizes Doro as a tyrant. Though many humans have tried to kill them, these two demi-gods have never before met a rival. Now they begin a struggle that will last centuries and permanently alter the nature of humanity. Hugo and Nebula award–winning author Octavia E. Butler’s sweeping cross-century epic places her “among the best of contemporary SF writers” (Houston Chronicle).   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E. Butler including rare images from the author’s estate.